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1298, and it's the battle of Falkirk. William Wallace on one side, Edward Longshanks on the other. Wallace has erected schiltrons, so the cavalry is ineffective Solution? Archers and slingers! "Stoutly the Scots stood, shoulder to shoulder;and though the infantry came up, and showers of cloth yard shafts were shot point blank into the ranks of Wallace, while with a storm of stones, the Welsh and Irish ( they fought on the side of the English) slingers plied their missles securely from behind, they could not penetrate that wall of spears. " From Robert Gunn, for the Clan Wallace Society
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